Ebrahim Raisi
The top deputy to Secretary-General António Guterres prayed for mass murderer’s entry to heaven.
“The U.N. should be standing with the people of Iran,” the U.S. mission to the United Nations stated.
Tehran’s efforts to lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic will also continue, a spokesperson for it foreign ministry said.
Hamas and Hezbollah—part of the “Axis of Resistance” against Israel— expressed their condolences at the ceremony for the “Butcher of Tehran.”
“The United Nations has completely gone off the deep end,” an Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry staffer wrote.
The Security Council held a moment of silence for the “Butcher of Tehran,” by whose death the U.N. chief was “saddened.”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in the 1988 execution of 30,000 Iranian political prisoners.
Iran’s proxies in Lebanon and Gaza offered their sympathies after the Iranian president died in a helicopter crash.
Jerusalem was not involved in the deaths of Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, an Israeli official said.
An Iranian official said the lives of Ebrahim Raisi and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were “at risk” following a crash.
The threat comes as Israel’s War Cabinet is deciding on a “painful” retaliation to the Islamic Republic’s massive April 14 drone and missile attack.
“The Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself,” said Ebrahim Raisi.
